Abi Morgan

Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts. ”

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space. ”

I think I'm always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre's always felt like a good place to run away to. ”

Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights. ”

I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My big thing is I don't re-read. When I write, I never re-read back. I'll send it, because if I re-read back, it will cripple me. ”

I got dumped off 'The Iron Lady' a month before they started shooting, and then they brought two new writers on. Then I was brought back on again. I'm just a bit of a rubber ball. I just bounce back. ”

I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now. ”

Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back. ”

If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life. ”

I like bowling with my kids at Shoreditch House. ”